On 10/31/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 31 October 2005 22:02, Mark Knecht wrote: > > My question is whether I can put Gentoo on the external drive and > > get Apple's Open Firmware to boot Gentoo. I do not really want to put > > Gentoo on the internal drive, at least right now. I'd love to be able > > to use an external drive to boot to Gentoo instead of OS X. > > I don't know, but reckon you can. > Do you know why I think that? I can use my apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse > with no linux bluetooth support, use them to install gentoo from the livecd, > and even get it to boot from cd (hold c while turning it on). > Also, yaboot ultimately references openfirmware device names, which should be > available at power on. > > -- > Mike Williams
So I'm game to give it a try. You say I need to hold c when I power on to get it to see the Gentoo PPC install disk? yaboot is the Apple boot loader? Like grub? (I'm a total Apple newbie) Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
